The Leonida Standard

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Geography 1 city named  /  0 districts named

Vice City in GTA 6

Vice City returns as the principal city of Leonida, a fictional US state. That is one of exactly two things about the city that are established. Rockstar has named six other places in the state and not one district of the city, has never stated what year the game is set in, and has never published a size for the map.

Everything else in circulation about the modern Vice City — its districts, its period, its extent, how much of it can be entered — rests on inference, on reconstruction, or on material whose origin nobody has established. This page keeps those three apart rather than blending them into a description.

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01Answers

Two things, and they are the only two

Is Vice City in it?

Yes. It is the principal city.

The first mainline return to Vice City since the 2002 game of that name.

Confirmed Rockstar Games Trailer 1 /

What is it the principal city of?

Leonida, an invented US state

Described as "home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond".

Confirmed PlayStation.Blog (Rockstar-authored) /

02Not known

The three questions readers actually arrive with

Districts namednone
Year statednone
Continuity with 2002 statednone

Which districts are in it?

Rockstar published a set of location pages alongside the second trailer, and those pages are the whole of the official geography. Five places carry names: an archipelago, a wetland, a coast, a region and a national park. A district of Vice City would have belonged there.

The scale of that material is worth stating, because it is small. One drop, in May 2025, is the largest body of official imagery that exists, and the register of what it named is on the state of Leonida

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Statements to citeFive place names on Rockstar's location pages, and every one of them is a region of the state rather than a part of the city.
Would settle itAny first-party material naming a district, neighbourhood or street of Vice City — a location page, a storefront description, a caption on a screenshot.
CitedAbsence of any first-party statement

Is it the same city as 2002?

This is the question most readers arrive with, and the honest answer is that nobody outside Rockstar can answer it. The company has said the game returns to Vice City. It has not said whether the city shares any geography with the 2002 game of the same name, whether any landmark is reproduced, or whether the two are meant to be the same place at all.

Open since
Statements to citeThat the game returns to Vice City. Nothing about what returns with it.
Would settle itRockstar naming a returning landmark, describing shared geography, or stating that the two are the same place at a different time.
CitedAbsence of any first-party statement

What year is it set in?

Readers reasonably infer a contemporary setting from what the trailers show — the phones, the cars, the way people film each other. That is a reading of footage, and a good reading of footage is still a reading. This site does not upgrade one to an announcement.

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Statements to citeNone. No year, no decade, no period, in any first-party material.
Would settle itA date or period stated by Rockstar, or a dated document shown in the game’s own published material.
CitedAbsence of any first-party statement
A coastal city photographed by us from high altitude at midday: a grid of blocks and waterways under even flat light.
Our own photograph of a row of pastel low-rise seafront buildings, taken straight on from across the road in flat midday light, cars parked along the kerb.

Two of ours. Neither depicts Vice City, and neither was drawn from anything published about it — a city seen from height and a row of seafront frontage are kinds of place, not identifications. Nothing in either frame carries a name, which is the condition almost everything shown of the state is in.

03The share

How much of the state is city

Unknown, and not narrowly unknown — there is no figure at all. Rockstar has published no square mileage for Leonida, no square mileage for Vice City, and no comparison against the map of any earlier game. The numbers in circulation come from fan reconstructions, which is covered in full on how big is the map

The same gap swallows the follow-up question. Because there is no published area for either the state or the city, there is no ratio between them to report, and any statement that Vice City occupies some fraction of Leonida is arithmetic performed on two numbers that do not exist.

04Provenance

One figure travels further than any other claim

The most repeated number about this city is the enterable-buildings figure in the table below, and it has no first-party source. It is worth being precise about what is wrong with it. The problem is not that the number is implausible — it may well turn out to be close. The problem is that it is presented as a specification when no specification has been published, and a reader has no way to tell it apart from the figures on this site that do carry a source.

No complete map of Leonida or of Vice City has ever been released either, so every full map image in circulation is a reconstruction assembled from trailer frames or material of unestablished origin. That material is described on this site and reproduced nowhere on it, for the reasons set out on the August 2026 leaks. A takedown notice is evidence that a rights holder objects to something. It is not evidence that the something is genuine, and it is certainly not a map of Vice City.

A picture we took of the base of a glass residential tower where it meets its parking podium, photographed frontally at midday, palms in concrete planters.

05The index

Vice City and Leonida, claim by claim

Every claim about Vice City and the state around it, and where each one stands

12 entries

Every claim about Vice City and the state around it, and where each one stands
State Claim Source and date
Confirmed Vice City returns as the game's principal city. Rockstar Games Trailer 1
Confirmed The game is set in the fictional US state of Leonida. PlayStation.Blog (Rockstar-authored)
Confirmed Leonida Keys is an officially named location, described by Rockstar as a tropical archipelago. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Confirmed Grassrivers is an officially named location, described as a primordial wetland expanse. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Confirmed Port Gellhorn is an officially named location, described as Leonida's forgotten coast. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Confirmed Ambrosia is an officially named location, described as the heart of Leonida. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Confirmed Mount Kalaga National Park is an officially named location. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Rumoured Leonida is understood to be modelled on Florida, but Rockstar has never said so. Wikipedia (Grand Theft Auto VI)
Confirmed Rockstar published around 70 screenshots and new character and location pages alongside Trailer 2. GTABase
Rumoured The widely repeated figure of "700+ enterable buildings" has no first-party source. Circulated by fan and aggregator sites
Rumoured On 18 August 2026 a group calling itself CyberLeek posted material it claimed came from Grand Theft Auto VI, including footage and an image said to be the Leonida map. GameSpot
Unknown The size of the map has never been stated. Absence of any first-party statement
Open since · statements to cite: none

Stated in first-party material, or shown in official footage. Two attributable sources where possible. Nothing reliable exists. Stated plainly rather than filled with speculation.

Every name in that table is a place in the state. Not one of them is a district of the city. Which real places the geography appears to draw on is a separate question, handled at real-world counterparts — and it is a question of identification rather than of confirmation, because no list of the places drawn from has ever been published.

A plain pastel stucco wall filling the whole frame, photographed by us in flat light with only its own faint texture in it.

Not one district is named

A city you cannot name a street in is not a described city

Sources

  1. Grand Theft Auto VI trailer coverage The Washington Post · Cited for the return to Vice City, established by the first trailer.
  2. Grand Theft Auto VI plays best on PS5, November 19 PlayStation.Blog, authored by Rockstar Games · The state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond — and cited for an absence: it names no year.
  3. GTA 6 Trailer 2 is out now GTABase, reproducing the official location pages · The five named places in Leonida, and the roughly seventy official screenshots. Not one of the location pages describes a part of the city.
  4. Grand Theft Auto VI Wikipedia · Cited for the Florida inference and for the absence of any published map size.
  5. Apparent GTA 6 footage and map leak as Rockstar issues takedowns GameSpot · The purported map image of August 2026. This site does not reproduce it.